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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:43:43 +0000
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
To: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data
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* Andreas Larsson (andreas@gaisler.com) wrote:
> On 2023-08-07 03:09, linux@treblig.org wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
> > 
> > sparc has a 'btext' font used for the console which is almost identical
> > to the shared font_sun8x16, so use it rather than duplicating the data.
> > 
> > They were actually identical until about a decade ago when
> >    commit bcfbeecea11c ("drivers: console: font_: Change a glyph from
> >                         "broken bar" to "vertical line"")
> > 
> > which changed the | in the shared font to be a solid
> > bar rather than a broken bar.  That's the only difference.
> > 
> > This was originally spotted by PMD which noticed that PPC does
> > the same thing with the same data, and they also share a bunch
> > of functions to manipulate the data.
> > 
> > Tested very lightly with a boot without FS in qemu.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
> 
> Applied to my for-next branch.

Thanks!

Dave

> Thanks,
> Andreas
> 
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